Bathynerita naticoidea
| Bathynerita naticoidea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Bathynerita |
| Species: | B. naticoidea |
| Binomial name | |
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Bathynerita naticoidea Clarke, 1989 |
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clade Cycloneritimorpha
Bathynerita naticoidea is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae, the nerites. This species is endemic to underwater cold seeps (oil seeps and gas seeps) in the northern Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean.
The possible placement of this species within the closely allied family Phenacolepadidae has been under discussion.
Species from these habitats can be collected by manned submersibles or by remotely operated underwater vehicles.
This species lives in cold seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico and in the accretionary wedge of Barbados in the Caribbean in the upper continental slope, in depths from 400 to 2100 m.
Examples of localities include:
Bathynerita naticoidea - like other species in the family Neritidae - has a shell that can be closed with a calcareous operculum. The round shell is low-spired and smoothly sculptured. Its aperture has roughly a semicircular shape.
The maximum recorded shell length is 16 mm.
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